The article is strongly argumentative rather than neutral. It uses Japan as a warning against U.S. legalization, emphasizing accounts from Dr. W. T. Pommerenke and framing widespread abortion as medically and morally harmful. It also notes that Margaret Sanger opposed abortion as a method of birth control, while Swedish family-planning advocate Elise Ottesen-Jensen defended confronting the realities of unintended pregnancy. This article, essentially, presents legalization as a public-health tradeoff: it could move procedures out of illegal settings, but, in the author’s view, requires strong medical standards and broader access to contraception to avoid unsafe, routine abortion practices.
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sweden and Japan were the first two countries to legalize abortion 1955abortion in Japan 1955abortion in Sweden 1955